During the last week, industry insiders, government officials, lobbyist, and community stakeholders from around the world descended upon Poland for COP24. What remains abundantly clear, combatting climate change is a multi-faceted, complicated problem. However, sacrifices in the short-term must be made to ensure the long-term health of our planet is secured. This is epitomized by the need to transition away from the use cheap cement in infrastructure development and construction projects across the world in favor of some more climate-friendly material.

The state aims to have five million PEVs on the road by 2030, drastically lowering its carbon footprint associated with transportation. Consequently, this will help ensure targets set out in SB-100 are achieved (transportation currently accounts for 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the state). In this way, the gas tax acts as a promoter of the PEV industry and the obtainment of 100 percent clean energy.